1988: Back to the human world for a few years

Chapter 501: The Attacking Disciple (2)

The State Electricity Regulatory Commission is, after all, a non-profit organization. Although it is indeed responsible for the distribution and coordination of electricity in the county, anyone with a brain knows that in a situation like the current one, if you go to them, there is no way to fundamentally solve the problem.

So, soon, Bai Mengmeng brought Tu Lili to the office floor where the County Economic and Trade Bureau was located.

Although he could directly knock on the office door of the director of the County Economic and Trade Bureau, after all, it was just a department at the section level. Whether he was Yang Mo's apprentice or the acting director of the General Office, there would be no difficulty.

But Bai Mengmeng was born in Tongren after all, and he had been trained in Texas for nearly a year. He certainly knew that when dealing with such a ball-playing incident, unless you are strong enough to crush others, it would be the stupidest thing to do to confront the general right away.

So, Bai Mengmeng went directly to the office area of ​​the Comprehensive Department.

As one of the eight functional sections under the county's economic and trade department, the Comprehensive Section has many functions, including the management and supervision of the power industry; managing the division, change, approval and issuance of power supply business areas in accordance with the law; responsible for supervising the implementation of rectification, standardization and maintenance of rural power use order, and coordinating the handling of major issues in rural electricity; responsible for planning, saving and safe use of electricity; responsible for power administrative law enforcement and law enforcement supervision.

Of course, they are also responsible for investment promotion negotiations, foreign economic exchanges, economic and technological organization and coordination, and major issues in transportation; they are responsible for a series of tasks such as planning, coordination, management and services for the county's information, medicine, grain, petroleum, light industry, textiles, building materials and other industries.

Everyone on earth knows that a department like this, which seems to be responsible for all kinds of work, actually does not have much authority in each business. However, since it can be responsible for so many businesses at the same time, the actual weight of the department is not small.
and so……

Isn't it reasonable for the acting director of the General Office to come and visit the General Section?
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"Oh my, Director Bai, we are such rare guests, such rare guests... Please take a seat!"

Huang Bai enthusiastically invited Bai Mengmeng to the sofa, then took out a can of fine tea from his collection from the cupboard and brewed some for this beautiful and charming girl, even offering some tea to Tu Lili.

There is no way. As the director of the comprehensive department, he may be considered a top figure in ordinary enterprises or local rich people, but in the eyes of large state-owned enterprises such as the drilling company, he is the kind of person who "if you are given face, you can barely be considered a top figure; if you are not given face, you are just a piece of tofu."

In fact, if it were just that, it would be fine. After all, the administrative system and the central enterprise system belong to two different lines. At most, they can ignore each other. But the problem is that everyone in the county knows that this girl is Yang Mo's apprentice, the kind who handed over the tea to pay homage to her master. In front of that powerful devil, who is she?

But don’t forget, Linyi belongs to Dezhou, which has been promoted to a prefecture-level city, and someone is in charge of the urban property fund company which is known as the second finance of DZ City!
Huang Bai felt a tingling sensation on his scalp when he thought of this.

As soon as he saw Tu Lili following Bai Mengmeng, he roughly knew why she came here today.

But the problem is that in the early 1990s when electricity was extremely scarce, especially in Linyi County today, this matter is actually not that simple at all!

On one side was the direct disciple of a certain invisible boss, and on the other side was his direct supervisor and his direct supervisor's supervisor's supervisor. Huang Bai's head suddenly became twice as big as his own.

However, despite being overwhelmed, Huang Bai still pretended to know nothing: "Ah, ever since I heard that you, Director Bai, took over the General Office, I have been thinking about whether I should wait until the gifts from the unit are distributed, and then shamelessly come to congratulate you. It can be regarded as wishing you a happy new year in advance... After all, the county has been responding to the call for cooperation between the central government and the local government. After a few years of getting along, our General Office and your department can be regarded as close brothers!"

"But I never expected that Director Bai would come to visit us before we even decided on the gifts for our company. This, this, this..."

"Hi~!"

Huang Bai showed an expression of shame for being short of money, and then changed the subject: "By the way, Director Bai, you came here today, you should be here to see Director Liu, right?"

Huang Bai looked out of the office door blankly for a few times, his face full of confusion: "I remember Director Liu was here."

After that, he propped up his knees with his hands, stood up, and was about to walk out. As he walked, he looked back enthusiastically: "Director Bai, please wait a moment, I will call Director Liu over for you... Director Liu, too, Director Bai, you are such a distinguished guest, but you don't know how to put down your work first!"

Unlike those in the city, county-level cadres, especially the grassroots cadres who were promoted from the front lines during this period, often did things with a peasant-like cunning.

It is obvious that Huang Bai felt that his small shoulders could not withstand the accusation from someone's apprentice, so he wanted to push his own leader out to take the blame.

Seeing Huang Bai's enthusiastic yet evasive behavior, Bai Mengmeng couldn't help laughing. When Huang Bai was almost at the door, she called him, "Director Huang, please don't disturb Director Liu's work... I came here this time just to visit you."

Find me?

Huang Bai was stunned, and then he felt bitter. Did he feel that it was not appropriate to go straight to the culprit right away, so he wanted me to be the one caught in the middle?

Bai Mengmeng saw this, but just looked at him with a smile, without any murderous intent in his eyes: "Director Huang, let me ask... I heard that the county organized an industrial production campaign last month, hoping to break through 2.8 million in the local industrial production value next year?"

Huang Bai's heart became more and more bitter, but there was no abnormality on his face: "That's what happened."

An industrial output value of 2.8 million may be just a drop in the bucket for people in later generations, and even any larger company can handle it.

But for a county in this era, it is already a somewhat exaggerated number... You know, according to the original historical trajectory, the GDP of Dezhou in 1990 was only 59.4 billion yuan, of which the local industrial output value was only 19.3 billion yuan.

Therefore, even though Linyi County ranks very high in Dezhou, this 2.8 million industrial output value is also an extremely ambitious goal... Since it is called "local industrial output value", it naturally does not include the main business output value of central enterprises such as drilling companies. Otherwise, with three central enterprises in the oil system, wouldn't such an indicator be easily achieved?
Seeing that Huang Bai did not deny it, Bai Mengmeng smiled even brighter: "It seems that the events in Shanghe and Jiyang have had a great impact on the county... That's right, after all, Linyi is only 70 or 80 kilometers away from the provincial capital!"

Upon hearing this, Huang Bai almost wanted to rush up and cover the girl's mouth.

My aunt, how can you just say such a thing?
However, the other party's identity was somewhat special, so he could only play dumb and giggle a few times without making any response to the matter.

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This is related to a public case that people from other provinces are not very clear about.

It was probably last year that the organization transferred Shanghe County and Jiyang County, which originally belonged to Dezhou area, to Jinan.

Although it is somewhat puzzling to assign the management of the Shang River to Jinan, after all, the Shang River is not like Jiyang, which is right next to Jinan, and the two places are still quite far apart; but strictly speaking, this kind of thing is not very uncommon in this era... People always strive for higher places, those with weak strength want to find a big tree, and those with strong strength want to improve the level of the city!
If there were only these changes, Linyi would not have had too many ideas. After all, Dezhou was only a county-level city at that time, and Linyi County was not poor, so there was no need to rush to find a direct superior unit to control its head.

however……

Seeing that the administrative scope of the region suddenly lost two counties, Dezhou was suddenly upgraded to a prefecture-level city!

As mentioned earlier, prefecture-level cities and county-level cities are two different concepts. After being upgraded to a prefecture-level city, Dezhou can make a dramatic turnaround and issue various restrictive documents and orders to the counties under its jurisdiction, and can also provide direct work guidance to the counties.

The former "colleague" suddenly became his leader. How could Linyi feel calm with such a huge gap?

You have to understand that when Dezhou was still a county-level city, the relationship between it and the counties was very delicate. There were many cases where it followed orders but not announcements, and there were even many cases where it did not follow orders or announcements. Now that it has been promoted to a prefecture-level city, if it really brings up old issues, how can you get away with it?
Of course, the most terrible thing is that a certain comrade named Ma was transferred from another province. When Dezhou was still a county-level city, he was confident that he could fight against the local guys with the advantage of his position. But after Dezhou was promoted to a prefecture-level city, this balance would obviously be broken soon.
Therefore, a comrade named Ma, after thinking about it, actually came up with the idea of ​​learning from Shanghe and Jiyang.

In terms of economic development level, Linyi County is not much better than Jiyang, but it is at least three blocks ahead of Shanghe.
In terms of geographical location, Linyi County is only a few dozen kilometers away from Jinan, which is even closer;
more importantly……

Jinan is now competing with Qingdao for the top position. As long as the county has a positive attitude, the provincial capital will probably not reject the addition of another district, right?
When Linyi becomes a district of the provincial capital, not only will the road to progress be much smoother, but the special nature of the provincial capital will also minimize the local people's rural advantages.

of course……

The prerequisite for all this is that you have the qualifications and the provincial capital is willing to take the risk of causing unpleasantness with a neighboring prefecture-level city and bring you under its jurisdiction.

Therefore, the county suddenly learned from the former oil units and launched an "industrial production campaign"... Everything is empty talk, the real thing is to increase the economy and industrial output value.

In fact, this is also the real reason why the drilling companies' well teams suddenly encountered a large-scale power shortage.

Industrial production cannot be separated from water and electricity. In this era of power shortage, especially in winter when power shortage is the most severe, the county naturally has to put the most important local industrial expansion work first.

Of course, this kind of thing cannot be said or done openly.

That's why Tu Lili encountered the incident of passing the buck.

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Seeing Huang Bai laughing dryly, Bai Mengmeng did not intend to give him the opportunity to directly expose the matter and transfer the connection power to his own leader as he wished. He just smiled with interest: "Director Huang, you also know that our General Office is also responsible for assisting local enterprises in development and business connection, so... I came here this time just to ask, since the county plans to significantly increase industrial production, have these products been connected with buyers?"

Bai Mengmeng has learned a lot from his master for more than a year, and the two things that impressed him the most are:

1. If you want to maintain the initiative, never use your connections lightly. Not only can connections not really help you solve all the problems at work, but it is also a double-edged sword. Once used more than once, you will be caught up in an endless cycle of cause and effect, and will become a part of the broiler chicken from then on.

2. Don't just treat the symptoms without addressing the root cause. If you want to solve a problem, find the root cause and solve it once and for all.

Obviously, as a girl who came from a large compound in Tongren and had stayed with her master for more than a year, Bai Mengmeng knew where the real problem lay when she heard Tu Lili's description and associated it with the various situations in the county.

Similarly, she had no intention of confronting Huang Bai and Director Liu so bluntly about the issue of electricity supply... She was very clear about the situation at the county level. Even if she directly brought up the matter and asked the county economic and trade bureau for an explanation for such a precious resource as electricity, it would only work for ten days or half a month at most. When spring came, the electricity that was supposed to be short would be cut quietly.

When Huang Bai saw Bai Mengmeng asking about the sales of industrial products with concern, he suddenly felt bitter as if he had eaten coptis.

The first responsibility of the county's economic and trade department is to "monitor and analyze the economic operation of the entire county, and uniformly dispatch and regulate the economic operation of the entire county."

To put it bluntly, it means playing the role of a nanny. On the one hand, she responds to the call of county leaders, and on the other hand, she does her best to help county enterprises attract investment, coordinate production, and find sales channels.

Although the eight sections of the county's economic and trade department have been divided into "economic operation section", "enterprise section", "trade market section", "science and technology reform section" and other specialized departments according to their specific work responsibilities, the problem is...

Since it is called the "Comprehensive Unit", Huang Bai, who is in charge of this all-purpose department, must be involved in everything and help with everything.

In fact, as early as when the county decided to launch a local industrial production campaign, some people expressed concerns about the sales of these industrial products.

Linyi County is not a populous county in the true sense. Since the rural grassroots debt replacement + JIT model commodity circulation project was proactively interrupted the year before last, most of the industrial products produced by enterprises in the county are not very competitive... In fact, if the triangular debt problems of these enterprises had not been alleviated to a certain extent, and if the Import and Export Trade Promotion Association chaired by Miss Mu had not helped the business from time to time, most of the enterprises here would have stopped production long ago.

Therefore, Secretary Ma, who had a certain understanding of the competitiveness of the county's industrial products, after unswervingly passing the plan to expand production, turned around and put the heavy responsibility of finding sales channels for these industrial products on the shoulders of various departments.

Among them, the county economic and trade department is undoubtedly one of the main departments, and as a member of the county economic and trade department, the comprehensive department is naturally assigned a lot of frustrating tasks.

Huang Bai couldn't help but smile bitterly when Bai Mengmeng asked this. "Director Bai, I'm not afraid of you laughing at me. I haven't had a good night's sleep in the past half month. Every morning when I wake up, my hair falls out in handfuls... With the example of the Dezhou Commercial Demonstration Zone, it's frustrating to find a market for these industrial products in the county just by relying on us!"

Perhaps because he was asked about his own sad story, Huang Bai's lament seemed half-hearted.

There was actually some truth in what he said. It was difficult to be a cadre at the county level these days. It was even more difficult for someone like him who had been promoted from the front line and was working in a county economic and trade department.

Secretary Ma's assignment might have been just a matter of a word, but it was like a mountain of pressure on his side. In fact, over the past half month, he had indeed contacted many regions and companies, using all means, including phone calls, letters, personal visits, and asking friends for help, but the results were not very good.

As he said, if it were a year ago, finding sales channels would be difficult, but not so hopeless.
However, with Yang Mo's move, Dezhou's commercial demonstration zone has now become the largest commodity display and distribution center in northwest Shandong. Those who want to find a sales agent for new products will first think of going to the commodity trading center in Dahua Industrial Park; those who want to purchase will also go there to shop first.

Stimulated and driven by the huge traffic, the commercial demonstration area is already filled with a wide variety of goods. Almost everything can be found, and each one is of better quality and cheaper.

With such a trading center so close by, why would people look up to these industrial products produced by local enterprises in Linyi County, which have outdated technology, old styles, unstable quality and much higher prices?
Even if I want to help you for Director Huang's sake, I can't bring myself to do it... The commodity trading center is not far away from your Linyi County. If I were to become a sucker for your sake, I don't mind, but the key is that it won't pass the audit department!
So after hitting the wall for more than half a month, Huang Bai was so worried that his hair was falling out... This was the task assigned by Secretary Ma. If it was not completed, no one in the county's economic and trade department, who had a reputation, would be in trouble!

Hearing Huang Bai sighing, Bai Mengmeng nodded with deep feeling: "Indeed, times have changed. Dezhou is now a pilot city for the tax-sharing system. In an increasingly market-oriented environment, everyone's vision is getting higher and higher. It's really not easy to still hold on to those old models and look for buyers... After all, not everyone is as simple and unsophisticated as the folks at the grassroots level in the countryside. As long as it can be durable, it's fine."

Ok? ? ?
Huang Bai's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard Bai Mengmeng's words.

Yup!

It is becoming increasingly difficult to find units to take over in the previous way, but aren’t there still vast rural areas?
Those rural areas may seem poor, but in fact, if you are willing to squeeze in, your spending power is still impressive.

Doesn’t the debt swap model two years ago illustrate this point?

Moreover, in the past two years, although the economy of the county town has not been very good, with the strong support of someone, the economic level and people's income in those rural areas have been rising rapidly... Although the absolute value per capita has not increased that much, the base is still there!
As this girl said, the rural people in Linyi are not that picky.

The industrial products produced by these enterprises in the county may be old-fashioned in style, the technology may be backward, the price may not be competitive, and the quality may not be so stable, but they are definitely durable!

As long as we can convince Director Liu to persuade Secretary Ma to do ideological work for those enterprises and other departments, and restart the original debt replacement model...

Huang Bai's heart began pounding when he thought of the power of that model.

However, before the hot blood rushed to his cheeks, he quickly calmed down.

No, that's not right!
This road won’t work!
In other words, relying solely on the county's words simply won't work!
If we want to restart the debt swap model...

On the one hand, the support from various departments in the county, including banks and supply and marketing systems, is one aspect;

The attitude of the businesses in the county themselves is another aspect;

But more importantly, the wishes of the grassroots people in rural areas are the key.

You can't force someone to buy or sell something!

If it were two years ago, there wouldn't be too many obstacles.

But now...

Who the hell doesn't know that your Drilling Company, Dahua Company, Xialiu Sales Agency and other organizations are very popular among the grassroots in rural areas and have great influence!

If you take the initiative to help the county mobilize the people, then it will be easy to restart the debt swap model. Even if the industrial products produced by these enterprises are piles of scrap copper and iron, as long as they can still be used, there is no need to worry about not being able to digest them.
But if you are unwilling to help the county mobilize the people, and even secretly say something bad about them...

Huang Bai's hair stood on end at the thought of this possibility.

If the drilling company secretly makes trouble, then from Secretary Ma onwards, all departments and their leaders involved in this restart plan will become a joke, and it will be difficult for them to make any progress!

Realizing this, Huang Bai looked at the pretty girl with fear in his eyes.

Does the drilling company have the guts to cause trouble?

Have!
At least this little girl has the courage... Her master is Yang Mo, and the county has no way to deal with Yang Mo at all. Unless it is merged into Jinan, the county dare not even offend the big devil. Otherwise, a long-armed management association will be in trouble for the county's finances, and everyone will have to tighten their belts to make ends meet.

Will the drilling company mess up this?
This... is hard to explain.

Although Yang Mo has always maintained a third-party neutral attitude towards the county, and has been deaf and dumb to He Changchang's repeated attempts to win him over;
But he has a very good relationship with Su Yu and Luo Yong, the uncle and nephew, who are natives of Linyi.

Although such insignificant personal friendship is not enough to make Yang Mo change his neutral position.

But if...

What about the little apprentice who is like half a daughter to you after she hands you the tea?

That's two completely different things.

Yang Mo is a man who is notoriously willful and protective of his shortcomings;

At the beginning, they were able to spend huge manpower and resources to launch a plan to revitalize 100 villages just for a few chickens that were delivered from thousands of miles away, and they also helped Lanling, an old industrial area with no future, to become what it is today.

It is also very likely that because his own apprentice was bullied, he would quietly give insults to certain people in the county.

As for who bullied his little apprentice...

Huang Bai looked at Bai Mengmeng, who was always smiling, and suddenly felt guilty.

Some tricks may be able to fool those novices who don't know anything about it, but it is extremely difficult to hide them from the eyes of those who know the business.

From the moment this girl came in, she didn't go to see Director Liu, but went straight to me, the junior director of the General Affairs Department, which was not that good, it was obvious that she knew how to size cards;

But after meeting him, even though Tu Lili was right beside him, she refused to mention the issue of electricity for production. Instead, she started by talking to him about the expansion of industrial capacity in the county, then moved on to the issue of sales, and finally to the rural grassroots market.

Isn’t the implication here obvious enough?
Thinking of this, Huang Bai laughed out loud: "Director Bai, thank you for reminding me. I just remembered that we are sitting on a treasure mountain without knowing it. I will make a special report to Director Liu later... By then, I hope your company will support our work!"

After saying this, Huang Bai seemed to have remembered something, and pointed at Tu Lili next to Bai Mengmeng with sudden realization: "This is... Team Leader Tu from your department, right?"

"Oh my, I heard from my colleagues at the State Electricity Regulatory Commission about Team Leader Tu's situation. The bureau is taking this issue very seriously... It's such an important matter related to oil drilling operations, how can they not ensure sufficient power supply!"

Huang Bai patted his chest and said, "Director Liu mentioned this matter yesterday, saying that he would take it seriously and asked us to seriously review it, investigate the cause of the incident, and then do our best to solve the problems in our work... Director Bai, Team Leader Tu, don't worry, the specific cause of the power outage has been found out. After I have consulted Director Liu, I will immediately go to the power supply station of the township involved today to complete the communication work and make sure not to delay your company's production tasks for a minute! !"

Tu Lili was still confused. They had been passing the buck all along, so why did they suddenly promise to guarantee the power supply?
He looked at the acting director next to him, who was several years younger than him, with some awe.

From beginning to end, Bai Mengmeng never revealed Yang Mo's name, and did not even mention the word electricity. Without even mentioning the word electricity, it was even more impossible to talk about raising an army to hold him accountable.

But even so, the other party patted his chest and took the initiative to bring up this matter, and also said that he would personally go to the front line to solve the problem.

This is so mysterious!
People are like this. The more they don't understand the key, the more they will feel awe.

At this moment, Tu Lili looked at Bai Mengmeng as if she was looking at someone from another world.

Although he felt very happy to be looked at by Tu Lili, Bai Mengmeng did not show any abnormality on his face. He just looked at Huang Bai with a smile: "Then Director Huang, please help us say thank you to Director Liu."

Having said that, he stood up and looked like he was going to leave.

After walking two steps, Bai Mengmeng seemed to remember something and stopped and turned around: "Oh, Director Huang, I forgot to mention that our General Office plans to hold a forum for representatives of enterprises, markets, and consumers before the Spring Festival to enhance mutual understanding and feelings... The scale of this forum is quite large, and there will be hundreds of enterprise representatives and representatives from various villages participating... If Director Huang and Director Liu are interested, why not come and participate together and give us some guidance?"

Master said that a solitary yang cannot last long. Simply using power or intimidation to suppress others is not a long-term solution. You must know how to balance when doing things, and more importantly, you must abide by the principle of equal exchange. Only when it is good for you, me, and everyone else without violating the principles, will others be willing to follow you and continue to play, and your relationships will become stronger and stronger.

Eh?
Consultation meeting?
There are also hundreds of corporate representatives and village representatives participating?

Could this be a simple discussion meeting?!

Huang Bai widened his eyes in disbelief after understanding the meaning of Bai Mengmeng's words.

This is……

Is this indirectly telling us that the other party is not opposed to restarting the debt swap model?
That is to say...

As long as the conditions are right, and as long as the county is willing to participate and cooperate with the other party's work, the other party will not take sides, nor will it interfere with the county's ideas and practices in other dimensions?
Hiss~~!!
Huang Bai couldn't help but gasp.

As expected, he is someone's apprentice. His mind and vision...

"Director Bai, please stay... I'm going to report to Director Liu right now. Please wait for me for ten... no, five minutes!"

Huang Bai suddenly stopped in front of Bai Mengmeng, and then showed a sincere and flattering smile on his face: "It's almost time for lunch. It's a rare opportunity for Director Bai to come over. We must ask you to do us a favor and let us treat you to a simple meal."

Bai Mengmeng rolled his eyes and glanced at a half-open office door. After thinking for a while, he finally nodded with a smile: "In that case, I'd better obey your command!"

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At this time, Wang Xingmin frowned and looked at the phone on the desk: "Director Bai is out? Did he say where he went? When will he be back?"

A worried voice came from the speakerphone: "Director Bai went out with Team Leader Tu. They should have gone to the county... As for how long they will be back, we don't know yet."

Going to the county?

The wrinkles between Wang Xingmin's eyebrows deepened. "Wait for Director Bai to come back and ask her to come to my office right away."

The voice on the phone became even more nervous: "Okay, Mr. Wang!"

(End of this chapter)